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G. H. MILLEN, D. CASEY & J. H. MANTION. MAOHINE FOR REMOVING MATCHES PROM DIPPING RACKS. No. 449,377.

.(No Model.)

Patented Mar.31,1891.

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STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

GEORGE HENRY MILLEN, DENIS CASEY, AND JOSEPH HENRY MANTIO'N, OF

- HULL, CANADA.

MACHINE FOR REMOVING MATCHES FROM DlPPlNG-RACKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,377, dated March 31, 1891.

Application filed September 25,1890. Serial No. 366,157. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE HENRY MIL- LEN, Dams CASEY, and JOSEPH HENRY MAN- TION, all of the city of Hull, in the Province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada, have jointly invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Removing Matches from Dipping-Racks; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of our matchremover, showing also a filled rack 'about to be divested of matches. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line X X, Fig. 1, and showing in dotted lines a match-rack and matches as in operation; and Fig. 3 is a top view of Fig. 1.

Our invention has for its object to speedily and uniformly remove matches in regular and systematic order from a rack in which the splints have been placed prior to being dipped to a bulk state, to be subsequently placed in packing-boxes, said rack and the machine for filling the rack with splints being shown and described in our application for a patent filed September 25, 1890, Serial No. 366,156.

Our invention consists of a frame having a back, sides, and bottom, and a front composed of a series of vertical parallel bars indepen dently held to yield laterally by springs, with spaces between the bars, said spaces agreeing with the rows of matches in the dipping-rack, so that when the face of the rack is slid over the face of the bars the dipped ends of the matches projecting from the rack will be frictionally held by compression of the bars and subsequently loosened in the rack by relaxing the pinching device, whereby the rack can be removed empty. The subsequent emptying of another rack in like manner will discharge part or all of the previously-removed matches held by the bars, said matches then falling in bulk into a removable box below the vertical bars.

A is a frame or body constructed of a bottom, a back, and two sides. The front of the frame is composed of a series of parallel vertical bars B, held in place by a flat straight spring E at or near the bottom and top. Said o springs are secured at one end to the back of the frame and the other end to the bars, with a space between to receive a row of matches from a rack such as described in the proposed application for a patent as aforesaid. The width of the bars corresponds to the distance between the rows of matches in the rack, and said bars are preferably pointed at the top, as shown, to form a V-shaped entrance for guiding the matches to the spaces between the ars.

O are auxiliary springs intervening one side of the frame A and bars B to offer resistance to the bars laterally and oombinedly compress said bars to hold the matches frictionally between them.

The lower ends of bars B terminate at a distance above the bottom of the body or frame A, and below said bars is placed a removable rectangular receptacle or box D, into which the matches discharged from the lower end of the spaces between the bars fall in regular order in bulk, and when filled said box is removed and replaced by an empty one. The matches in box D are then in v5 proper condition and order to be filled into packages for sale.

WVe claim as our inventionv1. A machine for removing matches from a dipping-rack, composed of a rectangular frame or body A, having a back and sides, and at the front a series of separated parallel vertical bars B, independently connected to the back by springs E to permit the bars to move laterally, as set forth, for the purpose described.

2. The combination, with the frame or body A, of the parallel vertical bars B, springs E, connecting said bars independently to the back of the body, and side springs O, inter- 9o vening said body and bars, as set forth, for the purpose described.

GEORGE HENRY MILLEN. DENIS CASEY. JOSEPH HENRY MANTION.

Witnesses:

JOHN GRIST, H. H. HOBsEY. 

